Not to be a party pooper but personally I think this Slack thing is a PITA to try and keep up with things.......no notifications of new posts etc.. Maybe it's just me but I don't like it so now I have no idea what is going on. Yes, I did join both groups and did verify my 1k holdings for each.....but it is much more of a pain to keep apprised with things than it is here......I don't know why people say it is a better platform, sure less fud going on in there but it is NOT user friendly like this forum, it doesn't alert you to new information via email like this forum and trying to find info is more difficult as well......I absolutely hate what this forum has become with all the fud, just as much as the next guy but I personally don't like this as an alternative anymore.
Hi IMJim!
It sounds like you could benefit from tweaking your notifications preferences a little bit.
You can choose to receive daily email summaries of what happened in Slack or, if you have a mobile with the Slack app on it, you can receive notifications directly to your mobile. You can set it such that you receive notifications for every single post, for only posts that mention you, for posts that mention specific keywords that you specify, posts in specific channels, posts that were directed at the entire group, etc. There are quite a few options so I hope that you can find something that works for you.
Once progress is afoot again, I plan to keep #announcements full of the latest news regarding progress so that busy folks can open up Slack whenever they have time and get the latest run down by just checking one channel. But for the time being, we are awaiting the next announcement from the team so that channel is pretty much empty.
I am available to answer specific questions you might have about using Slack to best fit your needs. It is a pretty amazing platform that can certainly meet most of our needs, but a learning curve is certainly to be expected at first. So please don't hesitate to reach out if you have specific questions as to how we can make Slack best work for you.
With regards to centralizing the conversation regarding a decentralized cryptocurrency, I'm not sure I see how Slack is more centralized than Bitcointalk considering that this forum has served as a one-stop-shop for all cryptocurrencies for quite some time now.
My hope with Slack is that it continues to be a platform that is accessible to anyone and that allows anyone to participate in the conversation. I am happy to report that I have yet to need to delete a post in either the XC or Blocknet Slack teams. Conversation has been unabridged and open to anyone.
For your information, if at any point in the future any other projects you follow migrate to Slack, you can be logged in to several Slack teams at once and switch between them seamlessly just as you switch between tabs in a browser. It's pretty slick.
Again, please don't hesitate to reach out if you need anything. I'm here to facilitate a better, more productive space for all of us.
This is what the Mac app looks like. Notice the tabs on the left that allow seamless switching between 'teams'.
This is what the Android app looks like. Notice that you can easily switch between teams and that you can go right to your 'Recent Mentions'. In Slack there is a @group, @channel, and @everyone command. As development progresses and there are things to announce more frequently, we will be using these commands more frequently. So, for example, when the team releases the finalized XBridge protocol we will want to tell everyone so I will make a post that says something like '@everyone: Here is the link to the finalized XBridge protocol' and everyone in Blocknet Slack will get a notification according to their settings, but at the very least you will be able to go to 'Recent Mentions' and find that post right away.
